The accused party can say anything they want, including airing out the relevant grievances in a more public way if they want to. Giving someone the option of p

The accused party can say anything they want, including airing out the relevant grievances in a more public way if they want to. Giving someone the option of privacy is not the same as denying them justice. Quite the opposite, it's a mature way of allowing the org (and whichever people are involved in the incident in particular) to choose how public they want to be, and to choose how they want to respond. But that's the extent of what they would owe, the mod team doesn't owe arbitrary people in the public an explanation that's detailed enough for them to form a hot-take immediately within the space of a few hours.